manifold melting oil filter surround mkII - Saxperience

chris_rolling · 11th September 2009, 00:06

basically after swapping to a piper 4-1 manifold the oil filter plastic casing, where its closest to two parts of the manifold pipe, has kind of bubbled, and there is a pin prick sized hole in each one as if it has cracked, this is causing oil to drip onto the bottom of the manifold, and therefore causing it to smoke and smell the car/surroundings quite badly (somtimes giving me headaches whilst driving

) im going to citroen/CES tomorrow to buy a new oil filter surround, but am afraid it will happen again. have tried heavy duty sealant (putty etc) to cover the holes, but they dont stand the heat and crack. would i need to heatwrap the manifold, or is there any other way to solve this, all sugestions appreciated!!

iluminusbutterfly · 11th September 2009, 00:20

convert it to the mk1 filter position

Stevie-J · 11th September 2009, 01:59

I use CES, but as good as they are, I doubt they will be able to supply the filter housing, only the element that goes inside it.
Try the scrappies? Can you not wrap heat insulating material around the oil filter housing to stop it melting again?

I'm glad my Mk1 uses a standard metal spin on filter, sounds like these later plastic ones are pants.

Predator_R32^p · 11th September 2009, 02:23

I used two gaskets and heat wrap

just get some gaskets there cheap enough and space it away from the filter housing

chris_rolling · 11th September 2009, 11:30

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Originally Posted by Predator_VTR

I used two gaskets and heat wrap

just get some gaskets there cheap enough and space it away from the filter housing

do they really space it enough? there thin as fook. is there anything i could wrap around the filter itself as a quick fix, got to go to manchester for a wedding in a couple of hours!

chris_rolling · 11th September 2009, 11:33

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I'm glad my Mk1 uses a standard metal spin on filter, sounds like these later plastic ones are pants.

too right. spent 3 hours with the steam cleaner a few weeks ago, then a week later, oily shitty smoke covered everything, gonna sue....

qrty · 11th September 2009, 11:34

My oil filter housing on my furio (Same plastic thing) started to do this so i heatwrapped it and held it on with metal cable ties! Worked great!